A father writes, and then we talk. His son left Edmonton on Wednesday, bound for Kandahar. He’s a sapper with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. Members of his regiment have been going to Kandahar since 2006. Six have not made it home alive.

When Corporal Jordan Anderson prepared to go to war he made sure his wife knew what to expect should the worst happen. “He told me that the case that he comes home in is called a transfer case and that there is dry ice in it. It’s not the casket. …

Retired general Senator Roméo Dallaire has been a vocal supporter of raising awareness for veterans’ mental health since his own attempted suicide — a consequence of his experiences in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where he was commander of the UN peacekeeping force